JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EXHIBITION OF 2024
Our new exhibition, Di nome e di fatto: LOVE /lʌv/, celebrates matters of the heart. In collaboration with Dynamisk Independent Curating and Art Advisory and curated by Dynamisk founder Angeliki Kim Perfetti, the feel-good group show brings together 11 artists putting topics such as connection, self-love and narcissism under the magnifying glass.
On view at Kiklo Spaces in Petersfield from March 4, it will include a variety of media, from sculpture to traditional work on canvas, photography and light installation, from exciting contemporary artists alongside and in conversation with iconic established names.
Juliette Loughran, founder of Loughran Gallery, said, “We wanted to start the year on a high, uniting audiences and artists with the most powerful human emotion of all. Love drives everything we do and this exhibition will explore its significance in art history with Dynamisk founder Angeliki Kim Perfetti, in the first of what we hope will be many collaborations.”
Angeliki Kim Perfetti, founder of Dynamisk, said, “In Italian you say ‘di nome e di fatto’, translating to ‘by name and by meaning’ hence why the exhibition is called LOVE, the title literally represents the purpose of the show that is celebrating the many different aspects of love.”
HEAD OVER HEELS FOR HUMOUR
Part of the exhibition is curated around the works of text artists whose art focuses on love in different ways. Johan Deckmann, both as an artist and practising psychotherapist, paints witty titles or pensive phrases that provide satirical commentary on the complexities of life. Just as artist and writer Harland Miller’s polychromatic and graphically vernacular paintings have garnered a devoted following, Pietro Terzini is also considered a modern poet fueled by today’s digital generation.
Light has always been related to love, and considered a source of hope in dark times. Both Chris Levine and Johannes Holt Iversen’s artworks investigate the representation of light, shadow, and matter. Using light in a multidisciplinary approach that harnesses a diverse array of technology with the intention of revealing the ways in which light is fundamental to human experience.
Love is a language that we all speak and is also explored in Helen Booth’s large-scale abstract paintings, Polly Morgan’s sculpture, which bridges life and death, human and nature, and Nancy Cadogan’s adoration for contemplative observation.
Pieces will also push viewers towards self-reflection, exploring comparison, competition and obsession with others and ourselves.
The exhibition will run until May 31. Please email info@loughrangallery.co.uk to arrange a viewing.
